Anyone from tasmania can confirm (or not) the following news?
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/03/09/212861_tasmania-news.html
WIND, rain and cooler-than-normal summer temperatures have decimated
Tasmania's leatherwood honey industry and retail prices are due to rise
sharply.
Bees do not fly in weather cooler than 13C or in wet or windy conditions,
and leatherwood - which is the source of 70 per cent of the state's honey -
does not secrete pollen under 20C.
Southern Beekeepers Association president Peter Norris said none of the four
major honey outfits in the state's South had produced any leatherwood honey
last summer.
Also, leatherwood production is down 80 per cent in the North.
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Juanse Barros J.
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